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Should relocate the meeting to Vojens, they have expertise in staging prestige meetings in front of small crowds at short notice.

Also at Oxford

Surely the ACU representative (Tony Steele), consulted with the FIM member who just happened to be there (Tony Steele) and after much argument and disagreement a consensus was reached?

The decision was a perfectly pragmatic one , and better than many made by sporting bodies (consider F1 earlier this year and football's assorted arbitrary points deductions under financial fair play rules) What WAS shocking was the length of time it took to reach and communicate the decision. (One I came up with before the meeting even started).

Possibly the best ever thread on this forum was the one about who would have been world champion in each of the seasons pre 1994 had they used a GP format. And 1983 was the one year that caused us most trouble with no real consensus and few strongly held views in favour of anyone.

Last Oxford Chargers meeting: 1 FX (Foord) and two falls that did not result in races being stopped (Simpson and Spencer) Yesterday at Mildenhall 5 exclusions due to falls: Halder (twice), Roynon, King, Watts. Five does not equal one!

Poole could lose both matches to Oxford and still qualify (e.g. 42-48 at home, and away, plus a win v Plymouth of at least 48-42). I'd rather like Scunny or Edinburgh to qualify as it gets a bit boring with the same three clubs dominating. PS I am assuming ties are decided on race points. I haven't seen any supplementary regs for Summer Trophy. Sorry Jubilee Hoo-ha

It's Østergaard. This is set out in the rules: the higher ranking in team order goes to rider with higher average in previous month's GSAs

Although Summers would struggle to guest at Armadale and Poole in the same evening.

You are spot on. http://www.gbspeedway.com/2017/meeting.php?mc1=x&mc2=f&mc3=x&mc4=Sheffield Tigers&comp=CPb&meeting=1509 The previous attempt to stage it on 18 Sept was rained-off, for that Redcar named 6 guests and r/r

Best team I can construct from riders available would be: 1 Wells 2 r/r for Morris 3 Summers or Starke 4 Dan Thompson 5 Sedgmen 6 Heeps 7 Morley

The best race of the night was France turning a 3-6 into a 7-2, so not sure why you single them out. Everybody found it hard to pass.

Agreed on both points, but think this is a good alternative http://www.gbspeedway.com/2022/search.php?mc1=s&mc2=x&mc3=x&mc4=x Particularly the ability to search

A fair question. I imagine Kyle Newman would welcome such opportunities. Last season left teamless when Eastbourne folded, and this dumped by Oxford. Think you would want to restrict it to riders with fairly recently established GSAs to prevent manipulation.

Those are the averages for determining team order - the equivalent of our green sheets, so a fair representation. While we've used different data sets I think we agree on the central point. https://www.svemo.se/Sporter/Resultat/Speedway/Serier/BAUHAUSLigan2022/Snittlista/ PS The stats on the svemo site are great, but why is it such a pain to navigate?

Lindgren 1.778, Nilsson 1.453, Aspgren not classified (he's only had two rides in the Elitserien). I'm using figures from SVEMO site of all 2022 Elitserien fixtures.

Kvech had an elder (?) brother so maybe that contributed to the confusion.

Good job for GB that Zagar wasn't here. Could have been 5th then

Would that be heat 23?

Damn that's my cover blown, back to witness protection for me

Look on the bright side at least we are in top 6 and not trailing Norway

And for comparison only one Swede (and it is not Lindgren!) above 1.800

Levishyn (and Salonen) are already in the Polish system so I doubt if you could persuade them to take what would be regarded as a step down in their career progress and come to the UK (although Jonas Knudsen who is at a similar level and age has). And how long would it take to get a visa for someone who already has full time employment (and probably a history of residence) in Poland?

If you think this is getting silly wait until the line ups for Plymouth v Birmingham next week

As it happens I missed this (SoN duty - someone's gotta do it), but I'd happily pay for 7 heats featuring Josh Pickering. PS If only Barker had aggravated an injury unloading his bike